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Route picked for Turkey’s $15.5bn Black Sea canal

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Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) December 17, 2017 – According to a report published in Habertürk, a route has been finalised for a proposed “Canal Istanbul” to be constructed as an alternative to the Bosphorus strait. The project was initially raised in 2011. The 30.5-km-long Bosphorus strait is the only shipping passage between the Black Sea and…

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